VINCENZO SIMONE – SENZA TITOLO | OIL ON LINEN | 25×35 CM | 2017
photo credit Vera Roveda

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH VINCENZO SIMONE

Your words on Dutch sobriety sounded strange; oh delicious bunches,
peaches and
apples, vegetable and fish – although they are called naturalistic, aren’t they
metaphysics?
Well, of course they are – here it is the idea of bunch, the idea of apple, etc. Everything lights up by itself in
a the perfect style of Rembrandt…
I don’t deny the moment of self-illumination in these still lifes; but, in
contrast
with Rembrandt, these fruit and vegetable seem to have a right relationship with the
world:
there’s something of the icon painting in it, this is the work of the light.

Pavel Florenskij
Royal Doors